Born in Hyogo, he studied piano and classical composition as a teenager. After studying at Kwansei Gakuin University, he was trained as an audio engineer at Center Recording School in Tokyo. After graduation, he briefly worked as an assistant for composer/arranger Akira Inoue with whom Sugimoto experienced professional recording sessions at Japan's highest-ranked studios. Under the influence of glitch music, he rapidly grew interested in audio signal processing with Max/MSP. He cultivated his own style of merging texture-oriented soundscapes and systematized improvisation, which was also deeply rooted in 20th-century classical music. In 2004, he recorded his first solo album Imago, praised by Nobukazu Takemura as "profoundly beautiful music".

Sugimoto relocated to New York City in 2006. Co-founding FreedomSound Recording Studio in Brooklyn, he has been associated with a number of recording sessions from various fields, including the original soundtrack of the independent feature film The Skinny by Patrik-Ian Polk (Fol-Chen) and the award-winning audio book Old Jews Telling Jokes by Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman. Sugimoto has been featured worldwide in concerts, art exhibitions, films, and numerous recording projects both as a solo artist and a collaborator. He made solo live performances at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn three years in row from 2009. He has also collaborated with fashion designers such as Asher Levine, whose 2011 spring/summer collection runway show featured Sugimoto's ambient music. In recent years, he has been gaining international recognition as a film score composer with collaborators including multi-award-winning Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong.

With deep concerns towards environmental and social issues, Sugimoto has participated in numerous charity events. He has been a collaborator of the non-profit organization "g.o.s.i.p.", an after-school program which supports children through Hip Hop activities such as rap, graffiti, and dance at public schools in Brooklyn. He also holds a critical opinion against intellectual property rights in the internet era, publishing most of his recordings under Creative Commons.